Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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Clubs
Adventures In Sound & Beat Control @ HMV Picture House
The newly renovated HMV Picture House hosts two new nights every week Read more »| 18 Sep 2009 -
Theatre
The Red Room
After a successful run at The Traverse during the Fringe, David Hughes is taking his Red Room on the road during September and October. A fiendish adaptation of Edgar Alan Poe’s Mask of the Red Death, it sees Hughes’ dance company team up with Al Seed, a Skinny favourite for his frightening version of clowning and a leading Live Art light. Gareth K Vile caught up with both Hughes and Seed, and asked them about the collaboration. Read more »| 18 Sep 2009 -
Music
Citizens - Try Smiling
Try Smiling, the debut EP from Glasgow trio Citizens -featuring Bronto Skylift's Iain Stewart on drums - is a manic mash-up of converging styles, veering bet... Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
Music
Mudhoney at HMV Picture House Preview
Way back when, Mudhoney were big, loud cornerstones of the Seattle grunge scene. While they’ve subsequently lost the limelight, they’ve maintaine... Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
Music
The xx @ Captain's Rest, 5 Oct
The xx are a music hack's wet dream, and, correspondingly, have been showered in praise (pardon the phrase) by the Guardian and Pitchfork among others. The L... Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
Music
Richard Hawley @ Queen's Hall, 13 Oct
Richard Hawley hails from a bygone era, crooning like Scott Walker before he turned avant-garde and penning luscious odes to courting couples and, er, his ho... Read more »| 17 Sep 2009
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Music
Jesus H. Foxx @ The Bowery, 12 Sep
It’s hard to find a common musical thread amongst the showcase at The Bowery tonight. First up, New York import Golden Ghost (***) – a plugged in... Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
Music
Various Artists - Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill - Extended Review
Inconsistency plagues a tribute album that really should have been something special. Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
Music
The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
The Twilight Sad have taken on a leaner, meaner look in time for the release of their hugely anticipated second album Forget The Night Ahead. Singer James Gr... Read more »| 16 Sep 2009 -
Art
North East Open Studios 2009
Aberdeen City and Shire Arts Community Pull Together to Promote Their Wares Read more »| 15 Sep 2009 -
Theatre
Big Gay Musical
Little Johhny: not just for gays Read more »| 15 Sep 2009 -
Music
Buy Tickets Now: Yo La Tengo @ ABC, 6 Nov
Like Sonic Youth if Kim'n'Thurston had fallen in love while chatting baseball instead of art, and if Lee Ranaldo was a Simpsons buff, Yo La Tengo have long b... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
Music
Phil Campbell - Daddy's Table
Having spent years battling drink, drugs and enduring trouble with record labels, it isn’t surprising that Phil Campbell has a wealth of materi... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
Theatre
Long Gone Lonesome
He came from a time before electricity, played at home and never toured. Meet a hero of country music: Thomas Fraser. Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
Film
Fish Tank
Mia, played by the mesmerizing Katie Jarvis, is a typical teenager: caught in a state of acute rage and chronic vulnerability. She has dreams, realizable des... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009